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1 Chronicles 17

1 Chron. 17:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thy people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
didst thou make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
thine ownl people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
for
`ad (Hebrew #5704)
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
KJV usage: against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-)to, + how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, (+ as) yet.
Pronounce: ad
Origin: properly, the same as 5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition)
ever
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
; and thou, Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, becamest their God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
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Ex. 19:5‑6• 5And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples--for all the earth is mine--
 6and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. (Ex. 19:5‑6)
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1 Sam. 12:22• 22For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people. (1 Sam. 12:22)
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Rom. 9:4‑5• 4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;
 5whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Rom. 9:4‑5)
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Rom. 11:1‑2• 1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
 2God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel? (Rom. 11:1‑2)
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Gen. 17:7• 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. (Gen. 17:7)
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Ex. 19:5‑6• 5And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples--for all the earth is mine--
 6and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. (Ex. 19:5‑6)
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Deut. 7:6‑8• 6For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
 7Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples;
 8but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deut. 7:6‑8)
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Deut. 26:18‑19• 18and Jehovah hath accepted thee this day to be a people of possession to him, as he hath told thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments,
 19so that he should make thee high above all the nations which he hath made, in praise and in name and in honour; and that thou shouldest be a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as he hath said. (Deut. 26:18‑19)
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1 Sam. 12:22• 22For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people. (1 Sam. 12:22)
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Jer. 31:31‑34• 31Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
 32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.
 33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. (Jer. 31:31‑34)
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Zech. 13:9• 9And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God. (Zech. 13:9)
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Rom. 9:4‑6,25‑26• 4who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;
 5whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
 6Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;
 25As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.
 26And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, *Ye* are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God. (Rom. 9:4‑6,25‑26)
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Rom. 11:1,2‑12• 1I say then, Has God cast away his people? Far be the thought. For *I* also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
 2God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture says in the history of Elias, how he pleads with God against Israel?
 3Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and *I* have been left alone, and they seek my life.
 4But what says the divine answer to him? I have left to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed knee to Baal.
 5Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
 6But if by grace, no longer of works: since otherwise grace is no more grace.
 7What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
 8according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
 9And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
 10let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.
 11I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall there is salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.
 12But if their fall be the world's wealth, and their loss the wealth of the nations, how much rather their fulness? (Rom. 11:1,2‑12)
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1 Peter 2:9• 9But *ye* are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light; (1 Peter 2:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thy people Israel hast thou made thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.